It is on by default in Windows… More likely people have routers with it disabled.

Pro doesn’t reduce ad amounts IME.

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It’s all client side. It even mentions infected clients.

I’d guess its a solution similar to DASH that dynamically streams different content.

What does a privacy conscious version even look like?

Some things simply aren’t legal anymore like buying crypto without identification.

Nobody loves arguing semantics more than a programmer. VSCode is absolutely an IDE. Jetbrains is entirely plugin based, Eclipse is totally plugin based, and yeah so is VSCode.

My password manager generates an email in 2 clicks, its a useless identifier.

Yes, when used properly it did out perform the competition.

Webextensions get their own webprocess as well as running in the website. I don’t have a link but if you read their source they just pass a lot of data to their process to determine things (last i looked some years ago).

There is a trade off of executing more things on the site vs transferring a lot of data. Either way it’s a heavy extension.

Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

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My only concern would be the systems that my code runs on top of won’t be willing to share. It is one thing to demand it from me, another to demand it from Siemens. Then you add in very low level code for individual devices such as VFDs

It is about code they pay to create…

You are absolutely correct. This can help in a world where every app is well sandboxed (thus can be reliably identified and isolated).

Something I like in some of Europe is that food just has a rating on it. Not only are they stricter about food pretending to sound healthy it will just straight say this juice is a D.

In the US every company spends millions to make their sugar appear more healthy and it works.

Orange Juice is not meaningfully better than most sugar heavy drinks.

Nvidia was also more painful than now.

Yes its a different language by the same creator.

Everything they do is open source, artificially holding back features doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, I don’t think that’s generally a problem. But modern firmware for some hardware is very complex and would be nice to be open.